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Bill O'Reilly's agenda

I have a new favorite program. Bill O'reilly's O'reilly Factor. He has a "news" program on fox and he is as right wing as it gets. It is nice to hear the opposing views to matters that I take as granted like: Intelligent design, Bush's illegal eaves dropping and war at Iraq. O'reilly Factor (his show) is presented as news program, but in reality it is pure propaganda. His guests are his right wing buddies. Yesterday the X-speaker of the house Newt Gingrich was ranting how president Bush was not breaking the law by giving authorization for tapping the phones of Americans. I don't believe O'reilly has ever disagreed with Bush politics. O'reilly even uses the traditional brain washing tactics. He stops his program and suddenly starts his monologue ranting about stupid Nazi democrats. His speech is boosted with a simultanious text. This way the audience will have two input channels activated at the same time.

Just last week O'reilly called American Civil Liberties Union ACLU as Nazi terrorists. ACLU among other things revealed illegal NSA spying, has fought against the renewal of Patriot act sun set provisions and has generally been a good watchdog of government.

Lately O'reilly has been complaining how the government isn't allowed to use "merry Christmas" anymore. I guess this is one point where Bill O'reilly criticized White house. Presidential Christmas card didn't mention Christmas but had a more generic: "happy holidays". O'reilly: "Put Christ back into Christmas". I say: "Happy Hanukkah  Bill"

See also: FOX News.com - The O'Reilly Factor - Interview - Howard Stern

Star Trek news

The Wired is runnign a story about a Star Trek: New Voyages. New voyages is a amateur film which continues the story of the original Star Trek saga. They have a lot of common nominators with Star Wreck. Wired notices that after the cancellation of the Enterprise, there are no Star Treks in the production.

On the other hand there are wild rumours that the next Star Trek movie would have William Shatner playing as Evil captain Kirk. A week ago I heard on the radio that the new movie would bring Kirk, Next generation crew and even the Enterprise crew together for the "last time". These news sound that the official Trek is getting closer to fan fiction where alternate universes and crossover stories are popular.

Boing Boing: KRON-TV: everyone in the newsroom is a one-man-band.

Link: Boing Boing: KRON-TV: everyone in the newsroom is a one-man-band..

San Francisco's KRON recently became the first major-market TV station in the US to supply much of its newsoom staff with laptops and digital video cameras, then train them to shoot, write, and produce stories on their own.

I have to watch these news every day and boy do they suck. I didn't realise before reading the story that the reason was competition and cost savings. I guess the blogosphere and traditional newscasting are getting closer. There just doesn't seem to be a place anymore for small and medium news channels. CNN and fox "news" and of course BBC do a proper job of broadcasting real news. Rest of the channels just camourflage their american funniest home videos as news... and FOX broadcasts propaganda.

More Bay area news

Tonight's news took the live on the scene reporting one step further. News reporter ended her story about presidential poll: "Live from the news room."

I guess the KTVU news want to look as a big news network that has several reporters all over the globe. KTVU only has a handful of reporters who are scattered around the San Francisco area. I guess that is why KTVU news at ten has.. well... not so international news. The first story tonight was a car accident where a Diesel truck turned over on high way. NO casualties or fuel leaks.

Twenty minutes and five car accidents later Bush and his oval office speech was analyzed. The whole setting was weird. DubaJuu was reading from teleprompter staring to the camera and he had no paper in front of him. The scene didn't look real, the president had big empty shining table, apparently family pictures and flags in the background but the most awkward thing was his hands. Because his desk was empty and there was no natural places to place his hands, the president was waving them around. The speech was the first after the Iraq war. Otherwise W has spoken from behind the stand. It is easy to see why. Spin doctors have hidden the president who lacks charisma and performing skills. (image from whitehouse.gov)

Apprentice Martha

The second apprentice show which has Donald Trump replaced by Martha Steward got cancelled after the first season. There is just something missing. The biggest one is that Martha doesn't FIRE people. They are sent home. Martha is known for home gardening publishing empire. You can expect to hear stuff like: "How can you invite a car to a table that looks like that" (actual quotation)

My favourite reporter in trouble

Kazakstans number two tv reporter Borat has stirred up some controversy in his coutry after hosting European Music awards. Borat is a creation of Sacha Baron Cohen AKA Ali G. Recently Borat gave a statement about Kazakstanian plans to sue Cohen: Jagshemash.

In response to Mr Ashykbayev comments, I like to state I have no connection with Mr Cohen.
I support my government's decision to sue this Jew.
Since the 2003 <inaudible> reforms, Kazakhstan is as civilized as any country in the world. Women can now travel on inside of bus. Homosexuals have no longer to wear blue hats. And age of consent has been raised to eight years old.
Please, captains of industry, I encourage you come to Kazakhstan where we have incredible natural resources, hard working labour and some of the cleanest prostitutes in whole of Central Asia.
Goodbye. Chenque!"

Via Link.

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

I just watched a rerun of the who wants to be a millionare from 1999 where John Carpenter won one million dollar. He didn't use any life lines before one million dollar question. Then he called his dad and said: "I dont really need your help, I just called to say I just won a million dollars." Then he locked his answer and took home one million dollars. Not just smart but style as well. I wonder if they monitor the radio frequensies. Receiver sunken into tooth and a guy with an access to Internet would do wonders.

Link: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Bush converses with rehearsed troops in Iraq via video

W has done it again. This time the leader of the free world stood in front of a big screen tv reading lines from a paper in a badly executed propagenda act. Bush converses with rehearsed troops in Iraq via video.

Before the president spoke via a video link, his event planners hand-picked 10 soldiers from the Army's 42nd Infantry and one Iraqi soldier, told them what topics the president would ask about and watched them briefly rehearse their presentations before going live.

The soldiers did not disappoint. Each one praised the president, the war and the progress in training Iraqi troops. Several spoke in a monotone voice, as if determined to remember and stay on script.

It got more hilarious when white house pr guy answered journalist questions: "are you saying it was not rehearsed. Reuters has a story

During the practice session before Bush entered the room, a senior Pentagon official, Allison Barber, stood at the podium and queried the troops about topics the president later asked about, including the training of Iraqis and the level of progress. At her prompting, the soldiers raised their hands when the topic they were to answer came up.

Barber insisted later the questions were not rehearsed. The military had been told ahead of time only about topics the president might want to talk about, not specific questions.

"We just knew broad themes," Barber said.

Clear Channel Communications

Link: Clear Channel Communications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

How evil can one media company be? This is a text book example why media consolidation is bad for society.

Hippocrazy, war mongering, patent trolling, censorship and auto-play stations.

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Link: PBS | I, Cringely . NerdTV.

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